Montserrat Police get support on George Allen’s suspicious death

by AirBourne / July 3rd, 2012

The Royal Virgin Islands Police Force along with the Trinidad & Tobago Police Force have been supporting the ongoing investigation into the suspicious death of George Allen Jr. confirmed Commissioner of the Royal Montserrat Police Service, Steve Foster on Monday.

The public is encouraged to supply any additional information they may have in relation to the events surrounding March 17 and 18, 2012, which led to Allen being found wounded in the Brades area.

Commissioner Foster told the media that George Allen Jr. also known asEzra David passed away on June 28 in Trinidad & Tobago where he was receiving medical care from a gunshot wound sustained around March 17 or 18 on Montserrat.

Commissioner of the Royal Montserrat Police Service Steve Foster speaking to members of the press on Monday 2 July 2012.

The top officer said colleagues from the Royal Virgin Islands Police Force are presently conducting a peer review of the evidence collected and the case. The Trinidad & Tobago police have also been assisting with forensic analysis and supporting Montserratian officers which were sent to the island nations several times over the course of Allen being in hospital.

The Montserrat police are receiving reciprocal assistance from the BVI as part of a co-operation agreement on reciprocal law enforcement assistance between the Caribbean Overseas Territories.

Commissioner Foster said the case is considered an “unnatural/suspicious death” until such time as the coroner’s inquest rules it differently. Allen Jr. never regained consciousness since being medivaced to Trinidad and undergoing two surgeries to help release the pressure on his brain.

An autopsy has now been completed but the results have not been released.